Most of the fighting takes place on planetary surfaces, and is relatively restrained in terms of destruction, the purpose of the war being to convince and control one's opponents rather than destroy them. The Weave is a group of species allied in opposition to the Purpose. The Amplitur are attempting to join all sentient species in what they call the "Purpose", an alliance they "guide" to some unknown (even to them) end. Two major alien civilizations, the Amplitur (a squid-like species with telepathic and mind-controlling abilities – which they couch as "suggestions") and The Weave (a confederacy of more or less equal species), have been fighting a war for several millennia. The Damned Trilogy is a set of three science fiction novels by American writer Alan Dean Foster ( A Call to Arms, The False Mirror, and The Spoils of War), detailing human involvement in an interstellar war.
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